Vault.



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JOSEPH W. FREEMAN, OF PEEBLES, OHIO.

VAULT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1905.

Application filed June 28, 1905. Serial No. 267,352.

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH W. FREEMAN, a citizen of the UnitedStates,residing at Peebles, in the county of Adams and State of Ohio, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Vaults, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to grave-vaults, and is particularly animprovement on or modiiication of the grave vault shown and described inmy- Iatent No. 755,866. Said patent shows a cement box open at thebottom and closed at the top, with means in the box to support a caskettherein. In the use of the device shown in this patent it is convenientor necessary to place the casket in the vault before the vault islowered into the grave, and this is objectionable, because the vault isheavy and the services of a considerable number of men or of a derrickis neces- The present invention is designed to obviate these obj ectionsby making the vault open at the top as well as at the bottom, so thatthe side walls of the vault can first be placed in the grave and thenthe casket lowered into it, after which the cover is put in place andcemented to complete the vault.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a vertical longitudinalsection of the vault. Fig. 2 is avertical cross-section with the coverin place. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the cover, and Fig. 4 is a side viewthereof detached from the rest of the vault before being put in place.

In the drawings, 6 indicates the side and end walls of the wooden box orlining around which the vault is made. 7 is the wooden lid to this box.The side and end walls 8 of the vault are composed of cement and are 4omolded around the wooden box referred to,

with a rabbet 9 at the top to allow the cover to be fitted down inbetween the cement walls and upon the top of the wooden box. Two or moresteel rods 12 extend across the box to support the casket above thepoint to which water could rise. The main part of the cement cover l0 ismolded in place upon the wooden cover 7 in advance, as shown in Figs. 3and 4, so that after the cover is put in place it will only remain torun li uid cement around the edge thereof and iii up the rabbet. Handles11 are conveniently supplied for lowering the cover.

In use the side and end walls of the vault are made and lowered into thegrave, and the cover is also molded and located conven-` iently. At thetime of the burial the casket is lowered into the vault and upon thesupporting-rods. Then the cover is lowered in place and liquid cement ispoured around the edges thereof, filling the rabbet and entirelycovering the wooden portion of the cover and forming an air and watertight joint and firmly securing the cover in place.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A portable cement grave-vault made in two parts, one comprising a boxopen at the top and bottom, and the other a cover adapted to be cementedon the box, the box having casket supportimy ,bars extending between thewalls thereof above the bottom.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH W. FREEMAN.

7Witnesses:

EDGAR G. MILLAR, JAMES A. STEPHENsoN.

